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| | Democracy Now! The W Effect: Bush's War on Women |
 | | The 'W Stands for Women' event featured members of both the Bush and Cheney families, including the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, who sat silently on stage; the president's sister, 'Doro' Bush Koch and mother, 76-year-old former first lady, Barbara Bush; as well as Dick Cheney's wife, Lynn, and daughter, Liz. |
 | | This is an excerpt of what the former first lady, Barbara Bush had to say. |
 | | They bring out Laura Bush to say, this isn't about revenge, this is about protection -- defense, not just of Afghan women and girls, but of women and girls in the world; and she said, women and girls in the world are threatened by the Taliban, and we are coming to liberate them. |
| www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/08/31/149200 (1099 words) |
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